Hollowreach

Hollowreach is a slow, atmospheric adventure about wandering an old observatory and piecing together why everyone left. There's no combat. You explore, you read fragments, and you solve gentle environmental puzzles to open new areas.

The pacing is deliberate. Some people will bounce off how quiet it is, but if you give it a dark room and headphones it becomes something special. We found ourselves stopping just to look at the way light fell through a cracked dome.

Touch controls are handled with a tap-to-move system and context buttons that only appear when you can interact. It rarely gets fiddly, and the auto-save meant we could explore in ten-minute chunks over a week without losing our place.

What we liked

• Calm, atmospheric exploration
• Gentle environmental puzzles
• Great with headphones in the dark